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oh boy i need help with XP and Windows 7 dual boot
I stayed up all night trying to finalize a dual boot, was frustrated part of the time and also had a lot of fun..I think I almost had it. I dunno, I think I messed something up during the easy bcd steps.
I installed 7 first and then xp.
After using easy BCD, upon my first restart, I could see both OS fine from the boot manager. Using 7 or xp alone had no issues, however the first time I tried to load XP from the boot mgr everything went to hell. I think I saw some ntdl messages, BOOTMGR is missing or invalid, again I wish I wrote them down, but I was pulling an all nighter.
Anyways current situation is I was able to use win 7 disk to restore that boot functionality, however mentions of XP aren't really around anymore. I snipped a few things not quite knowing what would help the most.
Desperately trying to get this figured out..love win 7, but I have a cad program that HAS to run on XP (MDAC issue). Please help!
PS Drive C is win7 and D is my other partition that actually has XP on it. It first started as Z...long story.
Thank you.